If I am not wrong I believe you are all missing something. That is a surley tire for a fat tire bike. They are real popular around the trails here. I think what they are showing is the custom fork crowns for a Dorado to fit on the fat bike. most fat bikes have rigid forks because no one makes a wide fork.Big fat baloon tire, fat hub, wide wheels all hooked up with a dorado? Would be a blast in the rocks.
If I am not wrong I believe you are all missing something. That is a surley tire for a fat tire bike. They are real popular around the trails here. I think what they are showing is the custom fork crowns for a Dorado to fit on the fat bike. most fat bikes have rigid forks because no one makes a wide fork.Big fat baloon tire, fat hub, wide wheels all hooked up with a dorado? Would be a blast in the rocks.
truth, lotta people use fat tire bikes too, I guess I just associate those super fat tires with snow bikes. But you're right, and I bet regular fat tire bikes are a bigger market.
I can't imagine riding a fat tire in the front and not in the rear...but I've never ridden one period so who knows. Hanebrink was doing something like this for a while, with his awful fork. I imagine you'd get gobs of suspension and traction with it, so you'd need less travel, but I can't imagine you'd be able to get it to handle well any time soon. There are leftys with fat tire conversions...eh, it'd be fun at plattekill with some beers before/after.
i foresee, that at some point in the not so distant future...
downhill bikes will essentially become motos without engines, made from exotic materials at 1/2 the speed and twice the price of proper motos, made for image-conscious label-loving douches....
Because they're trying to push some new crowns apparently. Probably because the only way to get suspension on something like a moonlander would be with aftermarket parts such as these? The tires aren't made for DH on a regular bike at all, they'd be downright scary at high speed. (I've ridden a moonlander with those exact tires on a relatively tame trail... scary.)
i foresee, that at some point in the not so distant future...
downhill bikes will essentially become motos without engines, made from exotic materials at 1/2 the speed and twice the price of proper motos, made for image-conscious label-loving douches....
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